8 ideas
8964 | Entities can be multiplied either by excessive categories, or excessive entities within a category [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8962 | 'There are shapes which are never exemplified' is the toughest example for nominalists [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8961 | Nominalists are motivated by Ockham's Razor and a distrust of unobservables [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
16698 | Days exist, and yet they seem to be made up of parts which don't exist [Burley] |
16690 | Unlike permanent things, successive things cannot exist all at once [Burley] |
8963 | Four theories of possible worlds: conceptualist, combinatorial, abstract, or concrete [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
16719 | The primary qualities are mixed to cause secondary qualities [Burley] |
13605 | Gravity isn't a force, because it produces effects without diminishing [Mayer] |